An avalanche of misinformation, half-truths, one-arrayed viewpoints, news items targeting a religious community, political party, media outlet, academic institutions, etc. unleashes on Twitter every day. This is despite the Central government issuing notice to the social media giant on “curbing hateful handles” and the Supreme Court hearing the case on “hatred on social media”. According […]
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Swara Bhasker, an actress known for controversies due to her political opinions on Bollywood and other subjects, is once again on the radar of the Right-wing brigade, as she tied the knot with Fahad Ahmad, a member of the Samajwadi Party, in a court marriage. All this accelerated when Swara on Friday morning shared a […]
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Kashmir in India is a route to tourism and prosperity. In Pakistan, it sadly leads to terrorism and diplomatic disaster for an ever-beguiled country. Every time, since 1947, India and Pakistan have entered into dispute or waged a war, Lollywood, the Pakistani film industry, has churned out movies that spin and paddle propaganda of Pakistan’s […]
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INTRODUCTION Saffron Diaries (@SaffronDiaries) is an official page running on Twitter with a following of more than 2,000 accounts. According to its Twitter bio, the page is a non-partisan, journalists-run platform, which shares real-time information and analysis, not propaganda. But while scrolling through the content of the page, the DFRAC team found the material being […]
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Introduction: South Asia Index’s official Twitter page and website focuses on the economy, politics, diplomacy, defence, climate change & other matters of South Asia. Its Twitter page has a following of more than 100k around the world and was started on December 2019. The page, as its bio states, presents global news to its followers. […]
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Twitter is the biggest platform of information warfare where many groups are involved in propaganda and misinformation where DFRAC has exposed many networks in the past, who were part of a particular network and working on a particular project and design. Today, in this exclusive report we will analyze another such account (ن في هند […]
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As always there have been many entities trying to inject extremist ideologies into society to maintain their authority. Easily accessible Internet and micro-blogging giants like Twitter and Facebook have made this task of exchanging hateful and provoking thoughts easier. Major parts of this agenda are amplifying any event with communal spin, the use of misinformation/disinformation, […]
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The Zero COVID policy triggered massive outrage in China. But as we know a great deal of information about the suffering and struggles taking place inside the Chinese mainland goes unheard by the rest of the world. The credit majorly goes to the different types of gimmicks played by the Chinese government. According to the […]
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The brutal killing of 27-year-old Shraddha by her partner shocked the whole nation deeply. Almost every day we hear such heinous cases which raise serious concerns about the status of women’s safety in the country. However, Shradha’s case has taken a new spin because of the religion of her murderer. After the incident, Love Jihad […]
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Arun Yadav, the former In-Charge of the Bhartiya Janata Party’s (BJP) IT cell in Haryana, is active on twitter with more than 650k follower. He was removed from his post on 7th July 2022, after Twitter users inundated the website, calling for his arrest over an offensive tweet on the Prophet yet he calls himself […]
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